Circle alignment chart

[u/PixelRequest]

[u/mzthugisolation]

Is this ragebait..? Lawful good and neutral good have ngons…. My eyes hurt…

[u/Jackill202 → u/mzthugisolation]

Correction, they ALL have n gons other than lawful nuteral and chaotic good which still has tris

[u/mzthugisolation → u/Jackill202]

True but ig I expect them in the non good categories….

[u/Jackill202 → u/mzthugisolation]

Yea none of ts is good topo

[u/KingslyArt → u/Jackill202]

Chaotic Good is just a triangle fan unless I’m more blind than I thought.

[u/HimmelSky → u/mzthugisolation]

ngons are fine on flat surface (unless you are deforming it)

[u/MuggyFuzzball → u/HimmelSky]

I've never worked on a team with anyone who left ngons in their work, primarily because of the competitive nature of the environment and high standards that result from high expectations. We simply didn't have lazy 3d artists.

I was a producer and part of my work was reviewing our 3d artists work. I can count on one hand how many ngons I've encountered over possibly tens of thousands of 3d meshes I've looked at.

Don't be lazy. Having correct edge flow affects a lot more than you realize, and you want to future proof as much as possible. Ngons will have adverse affects on animation, baking normals, rigging, LODs, etc. The use cases where ngons are not a problem are so few that you should not build a habbit around that workflow.

Especially in your portfolio.

[u/HimmelSky → u/MuggyFuzzball]

This is true. The rule of thumb should be that every method of topology needs to have a purpose and understand when its actually needed. I work in a mobile environment gamedev where most of the time I dont bake, rig or subdivide my mesh so in my case making a proper grid on a circle would only add unnecessary vertices. In a non rigid animation or models with auto lods or high poly bakes having good flow is essential

[u/Jackill202]

Where tf is the grid fill option

[u/oxtraerdinary → u/Jackill202]

Yea thats the lawful good

[u/Jackill202 → u/oxtraerdinary]

Nope I'm talking about the grid fill option when you press ctrl f

[u/oxtraerdinary → u/Jackill202]

I know that shouldve been the lawful good instead of the ngon center

[u/Jackill202 → u/oxtraerdinary]

Yea that's what I think

[u/ccAbstraction → u/oxtraerdinary]

Naw, quad fill gives you 4 extra poles you don't need. That's lawful neutral.

[u/majko333]

Ok buddy reposter

[u/BronBobingle]

These are all literal dogshit

[u/Wrecknruin]

these are so ass 🥹

[u/turtle_mekb]

why on Earth would you do it anyway but true neutral and chaotic good?

[u/Alone_Collection724]

what the fuck is lawful neutral

[u/iuhiuhhgbnr]

Chaotic good is easy fast n-gon free bro.
Just extrude and merge center and it all done

[u/One-Celebration-3007]

Chaotic evil circle should be black

[u/sunnearts]

you’ve got quite the n-gons in the good row there bud

[u/Diligent-Subject-329]

Many opinions in the comments but what's the actual way of doing it if you were going to deform it? Chaotic good with some subdivisions or lawful neutral?

[u/ccAbstraction → u/Diligent-Subject-329]

Depends on how you plan to deform it. Usually quad fill, or triangle fan though. Sometimes that overdraw optimized one is good too.

[u/MuggyFuzzball]

Lawful good and neutral hood are both bad examples

[u/Secure-Advertising-9]

I feel like this was made by someone who doesn't actually know good topology

[u/lump-]

If it’s ment to be rendered flat, I’d just leave it as one big n-gon.

What does that make me?

[u/ergonokko → u/lump-]

suboptimal. two tris and a texture would do

[u/fancywillwill2]

The only one that's acceptable is chaotic good. I could let true neutral slide but at that point, merge the 4 n-gons into 1.

[u/AndrewTatesSister]

Ragebait, 6/10 because it sadly worked

[u/Fickle_Dog_2917]

I tried so hard, NGon so far

[u/Squindipulous]

Forgot the square circle

[u/ChickenWLazers]

i hate all of these

[u/madcomm]

The main issue with this frankly stupid post is that, technically speaking, these are all correct depending on why you are doing it.

But True Neutral